Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Vaness and every week I sit down for a 40-minute

conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about. You guessed it, something that

makes me curious. On today's episode, I'm joined by postdoctoral fellow at Johns

Hopkins School of Nursing, Dr. Brittany Drop, where we discuss her research on America's

indigenous people through the lens of health and preventing obesity.

Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Vaness and I'm so excited to welcome our

guest this week. Dr. Brittany, John, welcome. Thank you so much. I'm very happy to be here.

So I'm so excited to have you and tell me you are, Dr., your doctorate is in...

Public health and social behavioral interventions.

Which is so interesting and also I see that we have a gorgeous middle name that I want

to know more about. Yes. So my Mohawk name is Vanessa Liosza and that means she makes

the day beautiful. Beautiful translation. Thank you. So often named around the events that

happened on your day of your birth or things like that. So yeah. Very lucky.

So you are a doctor of public health and you're also part of the, I say, Mohawk tribe.

Yep. I'm from Aquisessne which is a reservation in upstate New York. So shout out to

Aquisessne. Which we love and you have taken your cultural heritage and you're

parling into your life's work which is so cool. Yeah. Thank you. And amazing.

And I just want to say before we get too far into our interview that I want to acknowledge

that we're on the traditional territory of the Lenape people and I want to acknowledge

their ancestors and people, the past, present and future and acknowledge that we're on their

land and you know benefiting and surviving on this land and from the waters in this area.

So sending my thanks to them. Love that. Thank you. Yeah. So for you growing up, where did you

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